St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-07
A CHIMNEY SWEEP TALKS.
The Difference Between the Old and
the New Ways.
Small Boys No Longer Used to Explore
Soot-Choked FlueS.
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Tribune.
Mister, my mother wants you to send
somebody over to clean out our chimney
hue, and she said you'd better send little
Teller, as the chimney amt very big and he
might get stuck"
''Vots dot? Little teler?' wye don't
clean Shimneys nit little fellers.' We takes
mans for to shimneys clean Owt. Ha! ha!
ell, dots good shoke; clean owt SHIN
neys nit little fellers owt; ha! ina! Maybe
she thinks We hat some Oliver Dwist here
eh? Veil, We don't got some. We hat got
brushes und ropes nit Weights to do dot
piZnesS. ShooSt tell your mutter We will fix
dose ShlmneyS up right away und not to
bodder bout some little felers."
The speaker was a young sturdy Ger
man, whose sign avenue notified pass
erS-by of his desire to accommodate
the public in removing obstacles from their
chimney fiues. After dsmissing the boy
who had succeeded i'll rousing the Teuton's
good nature to Il pitch bordering on hilarity,
he turned to his visitor and asked what he
could do fol him.
Il wish to learn something of your bust
ness calling with view OF enlightening the
readers of the Tribune. To begin with.
What do you suppose made that boys
mother send him TO you to do job for her.
and for you to be careful to send a little
fellow to do it?"
20, dots only shoke; couldn't you see
dot:"
But his mothers stranger to you, is
she note"
Yah, dot ish so. Veil she must hat
been asleep desc forty year und hat been
raised in England"
What makes you think that?"
''Nell, you see nOpody etfer cleaned
shimneyS in dis country NIT little felers'
(another ha, ha9. und in England dose
sweeps who used to holler 'Sveep-soot-
o. hat been done away NIT for Offer forty
years. In toSe days dose little fellers vot
vos always half-starfed und bad treated,
dey used to go up mid de shimneys inside.
making of demselfes human brushes. Now
dey use a shointed shimney- ma
chine nit pruSh on der end. You see
dey hat bigger shimneyS in dose old coun-
Try dere by England upd offer in Shermany,
und until lade years boys und sometimes
mems would go up dose Shimneys inside to
clean dem. Now dose sweeps cry out
shoost like pefore. but dey don't go de
shimneys up inside"
How is it done now?"
''Shoost like i'll dis country, We use a
long rope NIT a pig dwenty-poundt weight
tied on, und We drop dot weight down dose
shimney for to make hole drough, den We
uses long brushes und cleaned dose inSides
of dose fiues. Ven dots done efferyding is
cone Some jobs is hard er'n udders shoost
on account of vat kind of coal vas used.
Some fellers dey use pad coal und dat
c.okes up a shimney quick; gCO1 coal don's
do dose dingS so much"
Rather dirty work, is it not?"
dots it; you got it. 1t vas de dirtiest
work. vot a man can commence. You see
We hat to get up on dose shmmey tops und
stay dere working dose ropes und brushes
up und down. ind dot SCOT und dirt he
rises up und SMOKES feller und gets all
over nit his clothes and faces. l hat
known many fellers votS got consumption
py dot piZneSs. und l amt very veil myself
from it sometimes already"
Did you ever find anything in chin :
ney but dirt or soot?"
We'll, brick OF somedinks sometimes;
ind vonce my pardner he finds some life
cat vots deaf. He vos pad smelling fell
Ier-not my pardner-und makes troubles
for dose peoples vot Ifs Ply dere."
Ever fall down a chimney?"
Say, youse funny Teller. Shoost look
on me. Vos l look like Teller vot could a
shmney fall down? Dose shimneys was
shoost apoudt yum foot aroundt. and effen
dose little fellers couldn't fall down dere.
Sometimes, dough. dose shimneys vos
mighty shaky. und if Teller don't look out
he will dose shimney himself fall ofer. l
hat seen dose ShinlneyS on oldt wood puild-
ingS shook shoost like good Teller. Some
of dose shimneys have been put up dtwenty
five years und more, und dey got pooty
shaky sometimes"
lis the business good paying one with
its attendant dangers and uncleanliness"
'Nein. Dere wasn't more dan six fellerS
in desc city vot do dose shobs: but dose
peoples Won't hat dere shimaeys cleaned
more den vonce in six or seven years al
realty, und some fellers waits dhwenty
years. Dat makes not much piZnesss for
us fellers to do. Den We hat to work sheep.
We get aboudt 50 for shob for two mans
york, sometimes We get more, shoost as
how dose shimney is. Ii he vos very pad it
looks two or three hours to fix him, und
den We gets more Ply a couple dollars. Dot
piZneSs voS no good. | comes me here
from Chermany four years past, und don't
find me much work effery year. Dose
months September, October und November
vOs de pest piznesS, as does peoples den
Won't dere shmneys good fer winter, but
unless We will get law come apoudt for
dose Shimneys to be cleanedt effery year or
two Teller diden't make some moneys at
it. | shoost guess I'll go pack by Cher
many dot spring coming und fight nit my
Kaiser on dose French felIers as vos spoiin'
for anoder lickin'. Say. you vos writin'
for dose noosepapers, ell?''
Yes
well you shoost told dose peoples yOt
kind of Teller 1 vas, und dot hat peen
four years by dot pizness und maybe dose
shobs will come faster by me. Dots a good
Teller Next dime We comes togedder l will
hat some of dose plack diamonds by me
vot We findt in dose snimneys. und you can
hat some of dose framed nit goldt und pc a
dood."
Natural LAWYER.